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Running time: 75 minutes (no interval) | Age guidance: 14+ (Contains some strong language and adult themes) Tell us what you thought: @thesjt | @tara_finney | #BuildARocket Christopher York SERENA MANTEGHI Build a Rocket was Christopher’s debut Serena Manteghi is an established play. After winning HighTide’s First theatre practitioner and performer, Commissions Award, the text was working extensively in new writing, developed in conjunction with HighTide, devising and physical storytelling. She is Women at RADA and the SJT. It debuted the recipient of the following awards; at the SJT in 2018, and subsequently BankSA ‘Best Theatre’ Award for won The Holden Street Award at The Eurydice Edinburgh Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Best Theatre Weekly , The Sunday Mail’s ‘Best Female Award and was named as The Sunday Mail’s Best Female Solo Performance’ for Build A Rocket, ‘Honourable Mention’ Solo Show. by Critics Circle Award for Build A Rocket and she was shortlisted for the Norman Beaton Fellowship Award in Christopher’s adaptation of The Pit and the Pendulum also 2016. premiered in 2018, set in the modern day Middle East, it scrutinised the attire laws that oppress women in those Her theatre credits include; Hamlet (Shakespeare’s Rose areas. It opened in Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries’ historical Theatre), Salty Irina (), Eurydice (Holden Street Convocation House before transferring to The Omnibus in Theatres, Adelaide), Build A Rocket (Stephen Joseph Theatre/ . Various), The Terrible Infants (Wiltons ), The Rise and His new play 212 is an Arts Council England’s supported Fall of Little Voice (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Echoes (Brits Off project. It received a rehearsed reading at Broadway), My Mother Said I Never Should (St. James Theatre), earlier this year. His short plays Jimbob, A Million Little The Railway Children (Kings Cross Theatre), HEART (Traverse Hands, Act 6, Jesus is a Rochdale Girl and Seven People have Theatre), Mucky Kid (Theatre 503), Agammemnon (Southwark all been performed at London venues including The Arcola, Playhouse). and The . credits include; Some Small Love Story (Arts Another of his jukebox inspired titles, All Delighted People, Theatre/Streatham Space) and The Beggar’s Opera (York which celebrated 40 years of youth theatre in Scarborough, Theatre Royal). premiered at the SJT in June 2018. The Scarborough-born playwright and actor is a graduate of The University of York Television credits include; Mrs Wilson (Bronte Films/BBC). and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He is an ensemble member of The Faction and was shortlisted for Film credits include; Miss Jihadi (Heavy Wait Productions), and 12 in 2016. This England (George Taylor Film). Paul Robinson Paul is Artistic Director of the SJT. He trained as a director at The Theatre School, then received an Arts Council Directing Bursary at The Manchester Royal Exchange. He was selected to attend the National Theatre’s Advanced Directors’ Course and was then Staff Director at the NT for three years.Paul was Joint Artistic Director of from 2007 to 2012, when the theatre was turned into a multi-award-winning new writing powerhouse. Credits for Theatre503 include: Salt Meets Wound, They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina (also Radio 4), The Lifesavers (TMA nominated), This Charming Man, Desolate Heaven and The Life of Stuff. Paul took on sole leadership of Theatre503 from 2012, introducing the Trafalgar Transfer season and the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. He has been twice nominated for Best Artistic Director at the Awards. His productions of And Then Come the Nightjars, A Handful of Stars and Land of Our Fathers all received huge critical acclaim and garnered a total of 12 Off West End Award nominations, including Best Director. The latter was made into a feature- length film.Other credits include Breakfast with Mugabe (Bath Theatre Royal), The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse – TMA Award winner) and the much-lauded My Mother Said I Never Should starring (St James’ Theatre). For the SJT he has directed Pinocchio, A (Scarborough) Christmas Carol, Goth Weekend, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The 39 Steps, Alice in Wonderland and Stepping Out. Helen Coyston (Royal Exchange Manchester and the , West End); I and You, Cost of Living, Jude (Hampstead), Honour Helen trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and (The Park), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (New Vic Drama. Stoke), Orpheus Descending (Clwyd, Chocolate Factory), Europe

Design credits include: Operation Mincemeat (New Diorama (). Theatre), Romeo and Juliet: Mad Blood Stirring (China Plate Television includes: Inquisition (Channel 5), two series of Dalziel Theatre); Sex with Robots and Other Devices (King’s Head & Pascoe (BBC); Impact Earth (Channel 5). Theatre); The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503); Stepping Out, Alice Radio includes: the award-winning The Blood Libel, Eight Days In in Wonderland, Build A Rocket, The 39 Steps, A (Scarborough) July, The Look Of Life, The Report (BBC Radio 4). Christmas Carol and Goth Weekend (Stephen Joseph Theatre) As an actor, Simon has been seen in Mamma Mia!, Chariots Our Mutual Friend (Hull Truck); Antigone (UK tour); The Acedian of Fire (West End) and his award-winning one-man show Pirates (Theatre 503); Short Changed (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Bloodshot (London, Calgary, Chicago, Vienna). My Mother Said I Never Should (St James Theatre); The Musicians (Royal and Derngate); Land of our Fathers (Associate Designer, UK tour); Made up Stories From my Unmade Bed (Lyric benedict jones Hammersmith/Latitude Festival); 1002 Nights (National Youth Theatre); Peter Pan, Watership Down, There is a War (Watford Benedict trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Stage Palace Theatre); Bluebird (Edinburgh Fringe). Management, graduating in 2013. He is prolific Company & Stage Manager, working in theatres and on tours across She also works as a costume supervisor, prop and costume the country, and is CSM for the outdoor touring company maker and facilitator for various companies and education Changeling Theatre. Most recent credits include; The Winter’s projects across the UK. Tale & Nell Gwynn (Changeling Theatre), New Plays in Rep Season (Bristol Old Vic), A Christmas Carol (Bristol Old Vic), Ben Cowens Measure for Measure & Blythe Spirit (Changeling Theatre), Child of the Divide (The Harbourfront Centre, Toronto), Up ‘N’ Under Ben trained at The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts in stage (Fingersmiths), The Little Mermaid (The Egg Theatre, Theatre management and technical theatre, specialising in lighting Royal Bath) design for theatre, events & dance between 2011-2013. Since graduating he has designed internationally and re-lit productions around the United Kingdom. He has also been STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE nominated for best lighting designer 2016 in the Off West End Awards. The SJT is Scarborough’s local theatre with an international reputation - a cultural icon of the Yorkshire region, providing Lighting design work includes: The Witches (Watford Palace accessible, high quality theatre to audiences since 1955. The Theatre); Moonfleet (ALRA Theatre); Thunder Road (UK SJT is known for its world premieres of almost all of Alan Tour); Build a Rocket (Stephen Joesph Theatre); Even the Ayckbourn’s 83 plays and its commitment to new writing. Stones (); The Knight from Nowhere/The Bells The OutReach department works with people of all ages (); Shadow of a Quiet Society (UK Tour); iCoDaCo (Aberystwyth Arts Centre/Cardiff Dance House/Suzanne and throughout the community via workshops, projects and Dellal Centre); Catharses (Tour of Sweden); An I for An I (Tour classes, including ‘Rounders’ Youth Theatre, which provides of Sweden); Showtime (Bridlington Spa); The Domino Heart an opportunity for local young people to experience the (The ); We Happy Few (New Diorama); exhilaration of performance first-hand. Conversations with Dystonia (); How to Find Us (Soho “A most amazing venue full of atmosphere” Theatre). A 2018 audience member Associate lighting designer: The Worst Witch (UK Tour & West “We are so fortunate to have such a gem in our town.” End transfer). A 2019 audience member Relight work includes: The Worst Witch (UK Tour); Brighton Rock (UK Tour); La Strada (UK tour & London transfer); Around the “a thriving focus for the local community, and a splendid World in 80 Days (London transfer); Imbalance (International); amenity that’s a pleasure to visit” Mark Shenton, The Stage Stateless (UK & tour of France) www.sjt.uk.com Tara Finney Productions Simon, who is originally from Scarborough, has composed Tara Finney Productions is a multi-award nominated, original music for over 300 theatre, film, television and radio independent theatre production company. TFP was founded productions. He composed the music for the three most in 2013 to produce Land of Our Fathers, which won Time recent SJT Christmas shows - Pinocchio, A (Scarborough) Out’s Fringe Show of the Year. Recently, TFP was associate Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland - and for summer producer on the world premiere of Oscar-nominated writer shows The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, ’s A Brief Anthony McCarten’s new play The Pope at Royal & Derngate, History of Women, The 39 Steps and Stepping Out. Northampton. TFP’s 20th anniversary production of Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs transferred to the Irish Repertory Theatre, Recent credits include music for the 2016 production of New York, garnering a Critics’ Pick from the New York Times Amadeus at the National Theatre; the Olivier Award-winning and The Greatest Play in the History of the World... transferred Killology (Sherman and Royal Court); the award-winning to the Traverse Theatre following a sell-out run at the Royal (Duke of York’s and Royal Court, New York) Exchange Theatre. for which he was nominated for an Olivier; The Winter’s Tale (); Carmen Disruption (Almeida); Award wins & nominations include: Alfred Fagon Audience The Broken Heart, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (The Globe); Great Award and Theatre & Technology Awards for good dog, Chita Expectations (); The Lady and the Van Rivera Award and Origin’s 1st Irish Festival Awards (New York) (national tour); , Death of a Salesman, The for Disco Pigs, over 10 nominations for Off West End Awards Grouch, As You Like It, Wind in the Willows (West Yorkshire for various productions, Susan Smith Blackburn Award Playhouse); The Rivals, Alice in Wonderland, Pinnochio, Wind and UK Theatre Award for And Then Come the Nightjars, in the Willows, Treasure Island, James and the Giant Peach Theatre503 Playwrighting Award for various productions, (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Julius and VAULT Festival Award for Paper. Scissors. Stone. Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); Coyote On A Fence www.tarafinney.com